On Monday The Marietta Daily Journal profiled a group of East Cobb Girl Scouts who recently earned honors at the FIRST LEGO League World Festival in St. Louis.
The five young ladies, ranging from 12 to 14 years of age, who make up a GENIUS (Girls Exploring New Ideas Using Science) robotics team developed a camera system designed to help the problem of limited visibility behind wheelchairs.
The story details their love for science and how they proudly call themselves "geeks."
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We put together this video from a qualification tournament last December at and the super regional at in January. Their successes at those events sent them to the state championships at Georgia Tech and then on to the world festival, where they won the Judges' Award.
The FIRST LEGO League and GENIUS program aim to encourage girls to consider the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), among the few academic and career concentrations that are still largely male.
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